BIOMIMETIC MILLISYSTEMS LAB PEOPLE PUBLICATIONS

Lab Facilities Prototype processing area Laser micromachining system Arena for ambulation testing Precision force/displacement testing station Research Tools   Prototyping Folded Robots   Microlaze and Thermojet   Tactile Sensor Construction   Pneumatic Tactile Display Fabrication   Laser Micromachining   Orthotweezers   Synthetic Gecko Adhesion Bibliography   Do-it-yourself gecko tape (ages 13 and up)   ImageProc dsPIC33F CPU board for robot control   Talks ICRA 2006 Plenary ``Challenges for Effective MilliRobots'' Movies and References Theses EECS Theses (list) G. Moy, ``Bidigital Teletaction System Design and Performance'' PhD EECS 2002, pdf K.H. Chiang, ``Limits on Microvalve Design'' PhD EECS 2000, pdf Srinath Avadhanula, ``Design Fabrication and Control of the Micromechanical Flying Insect,'' PhD ME 2006. Ranjana Sahai, ``Rapid prototyping of Robotic Structures on a Centimeter Scale,'' PhD ME 2006. Jongho Lee, ``Biologically Inspired Synthetic Gecko Adhesive from Hard Polymer Microfiber Arrays,'' PhD ME 2008. Aaron Hoover, ``Design of Minimally Actuated Legged Milli-Robots Using Compliant Mechanisms and Folding,'' PhD ME 2010. Nicholas J. Kohut, ``Inertial and Aerodynamic Tail Steering of a Meso-scale Legged Robot,'' PhD ME May 2013.